The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-09
OPPOSITION.
The Secret of the Success of
MOrmOnism.
BY BISHOP WHITNEY
The Warfare for the Gospel is Not
With Osrnal Weapons, but with
Those of the Spirit.

The services at the Tabernacle or
Sunday afternoon were begun by the
choir singing the hymn commencing:
To Him who made the world.
Prayer by Elder Elias Morris.
Singing by the choir and congrega-
ton of the hymn:
Arise. my soul, arise.
ELDER JOSEPH THoRUP, who had been
laboring in the South Carolina confer
ence, spoke. He said he left his home
September 18th, 1885. While there he
had witnessed the goodness of God in
his behalf; he had received greater
testimony of the truth of the gospel as
taught by the Latter. day SAINTS, and
would not part with that testimony for
tany consideration. Many might think
ne had received some unnatural mani
festation; but the Spirit of Gcd had
| taught him that he was engaged in the
work of the Almighty. He had been
generally well treated on his mission
he said. He attended a Methodist
meeting Just before leaving for home,
where the preacher had dilated on the
Wickedness of the inhabitants of the
island of Utah Elder Thorup ap-
| preached him and asked the privilege
of making a few remarks, which was
granted, although some of the congre
| CATION opposed and in various warlike
ways made demonstrations of hostility
An onslaught was prevented by the
Intervention of friends of the elders
A few days later he was waited upon by
the sheriff, and charged with as
SauI;ing the Methodist preacher;
he was arrested and imprisoned
and requested 10 furnish $3.50 bail, but
the sureties he offered were not
accepted. The case was finally dis
posed of, and he Was told to leave that
part of the country, then and forever.
blood, but he was preserved and allowed
20 depart. After his release he returned
70 his branch and baptized thirteen
into the church. The incident of his
Imprisonment helped the cause OF |
truth, in that it caused investigation.
BISHOP 0. F. WHITNEY said he had |
listened with great interest to the testi-
mony of his young brother, and to the |
incidents related by him; he was one of |
a great many who had passed through |
similar experiences, and who had, by.
the aid of the Holy Ghost, borne tasti-
mony to the truth of this great work
Why it is that people have
not learned that persecution
will not put down an unpopular re-
ligion, he did not know, unless it was
that mankind were slow to learn BY
The instance related BY
this young brother of having his life
threatened and being imprisoned, and
.ERoT ht hnn .1,r - /
Vas one which showed the uselessness
Of trying 10 combat truth with violence.
He was reminded of similar experi-
ence by another Latter day Saint elder.
who had announced that he and his co
aborer would preach in front of the
court house IN certain southern town
The event had not been thoroughly ad-
VertIssd: but lady went from house to
1Cuse, and proclaimed that Latter day
Saint elders, the husbands of $50 wives |
Zach, would preach in front of the {
court house, and advised the people to /
tay away; but the elders were met by I
he largest congregation they had ever I
addressed in that vicinity. This was {
mother instance OF fruitless opposition S
" bigoted and ignorant people. 6
The speaker cited an article in the I
tribune offour or five columns, purport- /
ng to be an interview with David I
n hitmer, in regard to seeing the golden G
lates, from which the Book of Mormon t
7as translated. The papers agent t
expected to get from Mr.. Whitmer, WIN | f
ad been an apostate from the church
Or many years, something deroga.ory C
o Mormonism: but Bishop Whitney 4
7as delighted. on reading q portion Of p
he article, to find how correctly the K
ged witness had been reported with II
egard to the angel and his appearance h
nd the character of the plates. Thus h
was, that IN that journal, the most n
lrUlent and bitter anti-Mormou sheet y
yer isSued, and which halts at nothing %
| its vain efforts to put stop to Nor ii
lonism, went forth to thousands of h
.aders inaccessible TO the Mormon 3,
aperS, 3 powerful testimony to the n
nth of the Book of Mormon. "
he cited the occasion of Balaan's ass il
.ing used to proclaim Gods word, and h
I'D that when he saw that article in Is
le Tribune, he could not help thinking al
e Lord had not yet done using the T.
me KIND or animals for such pur- Ii
)ses. q
No weapon formed against Z,on h;
all prosper, and eVeTy tongue which nj
'es up IN judgment against her shall Je
Condemned. All men, whether they Il
low it or not, are the Instrument Of fo
city Tor carving out and accomplish ri
s His purposes. In this day and dis ga
nsation The work of God had been N
hered IN by the Father and the Son:
d mankind might be saved through on
edience to the principles of the COS bv
|, and De initiated into the Kingdom NJ,
ID. and receive a testimony. such a. an
der Thorup had borne, which no on on M,
sition could take wa. -,
, uo SUI oaA' oeset oy storms and an
til its roots, and is made strong TO
-hstsnd all assaults. Such has been Sae
! history of men and nations in an ~.
IS.
Yhat made the power of Rome?
rdship and opposition. What was e
origin of this mighty power? 1t Cur
S one of the humblest, and, it might O..
said, disreputable. He recited ths -
end of the two child en-, Romulus q